Cloth-holder in needle-work



N. DANIELS.

Cloth Holder forNeedle Work.

No. 26,570. h Patented Dec. 27, 1859.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEWELL DANIELS, or M1LFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTH-HOLDER IN NEEDLE-WORK.

Specification of Letters Patent 1\To. 26,570, dated December 27 1859. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, NEWELL DANIELS, of Milford, in the county ofWorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulMachine for Holding Ladies Sewing-VVork and other Similar Purposes,called the Ladys Worl Holder; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the con struction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side viewwith a part of the table shown to show its position, and Fig. 2 is afront View. The same letters indicate the same parts in both.

To construct my invention, make a frame A (see drawings) with a clamp inits lower part to receive the table C, to which it is secured by a screwin the usual way. The lever B is hung from the upper part of A,

i so as to impinge the surface below when swung down, and when lifted tothe position shown in the dotted lines it shall make room for thethickest kind of work.

The operation is to place the work under the lever B and let itfall'upon it, when any 1 strain on the work increases the hold of the 1,I lever B by drawing it slightly :forwardw To shift or release the work,itis onlynecessary to draw the work in the oppositedt recti'on to anydesired position} 1 a 1 It is evident that many variationsinaybe i ymade in the form and arrangement of my 5 invention without affecting itsprinciples of 3 q, holding in proportion, tothe strain onlltllel workwithin the limitof the strength Ofth f material. if 1 l What I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is a a As a new articleofmanufacture a ladyls workholder to hold the work by the action! of thepiece B toward, and in connectionf with the solid part ofthe frame Awhen; constructed and operating substantially in; a, a the manner andfor the purposes as above set} 1 I forth and described. l a

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses. y, 1

\Vitnesses a LEANDER ,HOLBROOK,

ETHAN ADAMS.

